Lem, Stanislaw — The Truth and Other Stories

The MIT Press First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021. 8vo., xiv+326pp. As new in as new dust jacket. Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. As New As New 1st Edition 1st Printing Cambridge, MA 8vo 344